Jaxon scolds the dog

(Written by Luke) Jaxon is imitating us more and more. We read books about animals and he makes some of the noises. He is really good at the elephant and waves his arm up like the trunk as he makes the sound. When Baxter misbehaves, like eating Jaxon's food or barking at the neighbor dogs, we say "No" to get him to stop. Sometimes it is more of a sentence like "Baxter No barking, No." Jaxon doesn't understand the words but he has clearly picked up on the intent and will shake his finger at Baxter and say "blah blah blah." It makes us laugh a little and wonder if we should scold the dog differently.

  Today when I got home from soccer practice I took Jaxon for a walk to go get Baxter from our friends who live down the street and have a dog that Baxter plays with. Jaxon was walking next to me and some dogs in the back yard of a house started barking at us from their fence. Jaxon immediately turned to them, shook his finger at them and loudly said "blah blah blah." I laughed to myself and tried to get him to keep going but as long as the dogs were barking he wouldn't move, he had to tell them "No barking." So I picked him up and we got Baxter.